- (1920 - 1961) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1920) Stage Play: The Skin Game. Comedy/tragedy. Written by John Galsworthy. Directed by Basil Dean. Bijou Theatre: 20 Oct 1920- Mar 1921 (closing date unknown/176 performances). Cast: Marsh Allen (as "Mr. Hillcrist"), Tracy Barrow (as "Mr. Jackman"), Arthur Bowyer (as "Dawker"), Robertson Braine (as "Rolf"), Lillian Brennard (as "Mrs. Jackman"), Cynthia Brooke (as "Mrs. Hillcrist"), Ernest Cossart (as "An Auctioneer"), Shirley Gale (as "Anna") [Broadway debut], Douglas Garden (as "The First Stranger"), N. St. Clair Hales (as "Charles"), Herbert Lomas (as "Mr. Hornblower"), Joan MacLean (as "Jill"), Horace Pollock (as "Fellows"), H. Ashton Tonge [credited as Ashton Tonge] (as "A Country Solicitor/The Second Stranger'), Josephine Victor (as "Chloe"). Produced by William A. Brady. Note: Filmed by British International Pictures as The Skin Game (1931) [UK production, directed by Alfred Hitchcock].
- (1921) Stage Play: Clair de Lune. Drama.
- (1921) Stage Play: Blood and Sand. Drama.
- (1922) Stage Play: Dolly Jordan.
- (1924) Stage Play: The Farmer's Wife.
- (1925) Stage Play: Shall We Join the Ladies? Mystery. Written by J.M. Barrie. Directed by Frank Reicher. Empire Theatre: 13 Jan 1925- Feb 1925 (closing date unknown/31 performances). Cast: Grace Ade (as "Miss Isit"), Maud Andrew (as "Miss Valie"), Ilka Chase (as "Mrs. Castro"), Shirley Gale (as "Lady Wrathie"), Gurney, Denis (as "Mr. Gourlay"), Mary Heberden (as "Lucy, the Maid"), Leslie Howard (as "Mr. Preen"), A.P. Kaye (as "Sam Smith"), Margaret Lawrence (as "Lady Jane Raye"), Vera Fuller Mellish (as "Mrs. Bland"), Henry Mowbray (as "Captain Jennings"), Robert Noble (as "Dolphin"), Harry Plimmer (as "Sir Joseph Wrathie"), Jane Saville (as "Mrs. Preen"), George Short (as "Policeman"), Lyonel Watts (as "Mr. Valie"). Produced by Charles Frohman Inc.
- (1925) Stage Play: Ostriches. Written by Edward Wilbraham. Comedy Theatre: 30 Mar 1925- Apr 1925 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Katharine Alexander, Janet Beecher (as "Margaret Charlton"), Amelia G. Bingham, Edward Crandall, Shirley Gale (as "Smith"), Orrin Johnson (as "George Lorrimer") [final Broadway role]. Produced by William A. Brady and Dwight Wiman [earliest Broadway credit].
- (1926) Stage Play: A Weak Woman. Comedy.
- (1928) Stage Play: Maya.
- (1930) Stage Play: Virtue's Bed.
- (1931) Stage Play: Miracle at Verdun. Drama. Written by Hans Chlumberg. Translated by Julian Leigh. Directed by Herbert J. Biberman. Martin Beck Theatre: 16 Mar 1931- Apr 1931 (closing date unknown/49 performances). Cast: Edward Arnold (as "Dr. Paetz"), J.W. Austin (as "Sharpe"), Anthony Baker, Jacob Bleifer, Thomas A. Braidon, George Brant, Hilda Case, Valerie Cossart, Martin Cravath, Alexander Danaroff, Juan De La Cruz, Robert Deviera, Walter Dressel, Miriam Elias, Jules Epailly (as "Remusat/Premier Delcampe"), Shirley Gale (as "Miss Greeley"), Douglas Garden, John Gerard, Caryl Gillin, Lucien Girardin, Germaine Giroux, David Gorcey, Joan Grahn, Joseph Green, Hans Hansen, John Hoyt [credited as John Hoysradt] (as "Pillwein/French Officer/Radio Announcer/Jacques"), Alexander Ivo, J. Kunihari, Ari Kutai, Edouard La Roche, Joseph Lazarovici, Con MacSunday, George Magis, Mario Majeroni, Owen Meech, Robert Middlemass (as "Jackson/Clarkson"), Claude Rains (as "Heydner/Messenger/Lamparenne"), Michael Rosenberg, Helene Salinger, Francis Schaeger, Sidney Stavro, Marion Stephenson, Akim Tamiroff (as "Roubeau"), Peter Wayne, Crane Whitley (credited as Clem Wilenchick) (as "Morel"), Max Willenz, Percy Woodley, Hanaki Yoshiwara, Ali Yousuff, Salvatore Zito. Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1931) Stage Play: Cynara. Drama. Written by H.M. Harwood and R.F. Gore-Brown. Adapted from the novel "An Imperfect Lover" by R.F. Gore-Brown (known in the film industry as 'Robert Brown (III)'). Directed by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Morosco Theatre: 2 Nov 1931- May 1932 (closing date unknown/210 performances). Cast: Adrianne Allen (as "Doris Lea"), Peter Barbier, Thomas Bate, Gladys Bell, Edna Bennett, Hannam Clark (as "Rev. Harold Dringer, Foreman of the Jury"), Jean Derayville (as "A Customer"), Linda Eder (as "Alice Boot"), Phoebe Foster (as "Clemency Warlock"), Shirley Gale (as "Miss Trix "), Paul Hanson, Miriam Jordan, A.P. Kaye (as "Mr. Boot, Coroner"), Mario Majeroni (as "Mr. Small"), Alice Martin, Marguerite Martin (as "Marjorie"), Vera Fuller Mellish (as "Grace Boot"), Philip Merivale (as "Jim Warlock"), Mary Newham-Davis, Clement O'Loghlen, Kathryn O'Neill, Joe Romantini, Mary Scott Seton, Henry Stephenson (as "Hon. John Tring"), Mary Williamson. Produced by Lee Shubert. Note: Produced on film as Cynara (1932), directed by King Vidor.
- (1934) Stage Play: All Rights Reserved. Comedy.
- (1935) Stage Play: Victoria Regina. Historical drama.
- (1936) Stage Play: Night Must Fall. Mystery.
- (1938) Stage Play: Knights of Song. Musical. Material by Glendon Allvine. Based on a story by Glendon Allvine and Adele Gutman Nathan. Musical Direction by George Hirst. Orchestrations furnished by Tams-Witmark Music Library Inc. Additional orchestrations by Harold Sanford. Gilbert and Sullivan musical excerpts staged by Avalon Collard. Directed by Oscar Hammerstein II. Hollywood Theatre: 17 Oct 1938- 29 Oct 1938 (16 performances). Cast: John Adair (as "McManus"), Jay Amiss, Earl Ashcroft, Charles Atkin, Reginald Bach, Victor Beecroft (as "Harris"), Beulah Blake, Freeman Bloodgood, Nigel Bruce (as "William Schwenk Gilbert"), Ralph Bunker (as "Sir Joseph Porter"), Martha Burnett, Angus Cairns, Robert Chisholm, Virginia Cole, Robert Collins, Burr Crandall, Norman Crandall, Shirley Dale, Paul Davin, Shannon Dean, Vera Deane, Annamary Dickey, Mary Dyer, Bruce Evans, Anthony Ferrara, William Foran, Ann Francis, Shirley Gale (as "Wardrobe Woman"), Davie Gladstone, Carrie Glenn, Norman Gray, Sally Hadley, Natalie Hall, Edward Hayes, Karl Holly, Mary Hoppel, Rosalind Ivan, Myrtis Jackson, Dorothy Johnson, Lois Kirk, Earle MacVeigh, Emily Marsh, John Moore, Henry Mowbray (as "His Grace, The Archbishop of Canterbury"), Sandra Nova, Winston O'Keefe (as "George Bernard Shaw"), Remington Olmstead, Eva Paul, Molly Pearson, Orlo Rexford, Martha Roberts, Leonard Rocky, Edward Ryan, Jr., David Showalter, Laurence Siegel, Lawrence Siegle, Betty Sparks, George Vaughan, Gladstone Waldrip, Ruth Wenton, Everett West, Rex Williams, Monty Woolley (as "His Royal Highness, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales"). Produced by Laurence Schwab.
- (1943) Stage Play: A New Life.
- (1953) Stage Play: A Pin to See the Peepshow. Drama. Written by F. Tennyson Jesse [final Broadway credit] and H. Harwood. Based on the novel by F. Tennyson Jesse. Scenic Design by Ariel Ballif. Directed by Peter Cotes. Playhouse Theatre: 17 Sep 1953 (1 performance). Cast: Len Bedsow (as "Ensemble"), Eva Leonard Boyne (as "Mrs. Almond"), Valerie Cardew (as "Lily Kitt"), Nell Clarke (as "Matron"), Winifred Cushing (as "Gipsy Danvers/Ensemble") [final Broadway role], Crandall Diehl (as "Ensemble"), Martha Farrar (as "Anne Ackroyd"), Shirley Gale (as "A Wardress"), William Griffis (as "George Almond"), Claude Horton (as "Herbert Starling"), Basil Howes (as "Dr. Ackroyd"), Jerome Kilty (as "Mr. Ringwood"), Richard Lederer (as "Ensemble"), Ronald Long (as "Police Inspector"), Pat Malone (as "Another Constable/Ensemble"), Joan Miller (as "Julia Almond"), Roger Moore (as "Leo Carr"), James Morley (as "Police Constable"), Marie Paxton (as "Marian Lestrange"), Joy Saunders (as "Elsa"), Charles Shelvey (as "Ensemble"), Richard Towers (as "Ensemble"), Frederic Warriner (as "Captain Embury/Dr.Oglivie"), Margaretta Warwick (as "Bertha Starling"). Produced by Nancy Davids.
- (1960) Stage Play: All the Way Home. Drama. Written by Tad Mosel. Based on the Pulitzer Prize novel "A Death in the Family" by James Agee. Assistant Director: Gene Lasko. Directed by Arthur Penn. Belasco Theatre: 30 Nov 1960- 16 Sep 1961 (333 performances + 1 preview on 29 Nov 1960). Cast: Robert Ader (as "A Boy"), Thomas Chalmers (as "Joel Lynch") [final Broadway role], Jeff Conaway (as "A Boy") [Broadway debut], Colleen Dewhurst (as "Mary Follet"), Lillian Gish (as "Catherine Lynch"), Arthur Hill (as "Jay Follet"), Clifton James (as "Ralph Follet"), Dorrit Kelton (as "Aunt Sadie Follet"), Aline MacMahon (as "Aunt Hannah Lynch"), John Megna (as "Rufus"), Christopher Month (as "Jim-Wilson"), Gary Morgan (as "A Boy"), Lenka Peterson (as "Sally Follet"), Larry Provost (as "A Boy"), Georgia Simmons (as "Jessie Follet"), Art Smith (as "Father Jackson"), Lylah Tiffany (as "Great-Great-Granmaw") [Broadway debut], Tom Wheatley (as "Andrew Lynch"), Edwin Wolfe (as "John Henry Follet"). Understudies: Robert Ader (as "Jim-Wilson"), Shirley Gale (as "Catherine Lynch/Great-Great-Granmaw") [final Broadway role], Charles Gerald (as "Father Jackson/Ralph Follet"), Christopher Month (as "Rufus), Richard Mulligan (as "Andrew Lynch/Jay Follet"), Mary Perry (as "Aunt Sadie Follet, Jessie Follet") and Lenka Peterson (as "Mary Follet"). Replacement actors: Elizabeth Lawrence (as "Sally Follet"), Lenka Peterson (as "Mary Follet"), Frank Tweddell (as "Joel Lynch"). Produced by Fred Coe. Produced in association with Arthur Cantor. Note: Filmed by Paramount Pictures as All the Way Home (1963).
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